How to Surf the Web and not to Drown! Prof. Marina Cantarutti [email_address]

Surfing the Web

The Size of the Web Can you figure the figures? Population: 40,481,998 Number of users: 20,000,000 User growth 2000-2008 700% From: Internet World Stats http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

Can you figure the figures?

The Size of the Web The size of the World Wide Web: Estimated size of Google's index http://www.worldwidewebsize.com/

What,now!!!???

What is Web 2.0?

What is Web 2.0?

How good are you at searching ? Answer A Answer B Answer C Answer D

Search Engines Search your PC first! Search Engine Types: People vs Robots? Search Engines : Google, Yahoo!, Ask.com, Bing Search Directories : Yahoo! Directory, Pandia Open Directory Blog Search : Technorati, Google Blog Search, Blog Search Engine Podcast Search : PodcastAlley, Podanza, Podcast blaster News Search: AllTheWeb News, Daypop, Google News - (collaborative) Menéame, Fresqui, Digg

Search your PC first!

Search Engine Types: People vs Robots?

Search Engines : Google, Yahoo!, Ask.com, Bing

Search Directories : Yahoo! Directory, Pandia Open Directory

Blog Search : Technorati, Google Blog Search, Blog Search Engine

Podcast Search : PodcastAlley, Podanza, Podcast blaster

News Search: AllTheWeb News, Daypop, Google News - (collaborative) Menéame, Fresqui, Digg

Searching Recipes Wording: exact “title”, approximation, synonyms, alternative phrases Input: Exact phrase: “ “ (“web search methods”) Related terms: + (web search + engines) Word and its categories: * (search*  search engines, search directories, etc) Boolean Search: NOT for exclusion AND for supplementary terms OR for indistinctive terms

Wording: exact “title”, approximation, synonyms, alternative phrases

Input:

Exact phrase: “ “ (“web search methods”)

Related terms: + (web search + engines)

Word and its categories: * (search*  search engines, search directories, etc)

Boolean Search:

NOT for exclusion

AND for supplementary terms

OR for indistinctive terms

Selecting Websites People’s views. Study by Stanford University. http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/pdfs/stanfordPTL.pdf

Selecting Websites Website Credibility External: your knowledge of the topic! Internal: URL: name, domain, extension Publisher/Authority Update Navigability Organisation Selection of Content Legibility Audience in Mind Contact Details

Website Credibility

External: your knowledge of the topic!

Internal:

URL: name, domain, extension

Publisher/Authority

Update

Navigability

Organisation

Selection of Content

Legibility

Audience in Mind

Contact Details

The SEO and MLK Case SEO: Search Engine Optimization A way to get to the top! The MLK Case: www.martinlutherking.org “ Remember, hate groups can do search engine optimization and marketing too!” Seth Finkelstein The Cut-and-Paste Syndrome and Plagiarism

SEO: Search Engine Optimization

A way to get to the top!

The MLK Case: www.martinlutherking.org

“ Remember, hate groups can do search engine optimization and marketing too!” Seth Finkelstein

The Wikipedia Case How does Wikipedia work? Search and read the article Edit the article yourself! See who else’s changed what! Britannica Encyclopedia vs Wikipedia: one is the collective effort of an enterprise, the other, the chaotic effort of volunteerism” (Martín Varsavsky) Wikitruth Objectivity vs Subjectivity - Authority

How does Wikipedia work?

Search and read the article

Edit the article yourself!

See who else’s changed what!

Britannica Encyclopedia vs Wikipedia: one is the collective effort of an enterprise, the other, the chaotic effort of volunteerism” (Martín Varsavsky)

Wikitruth

Objectivity vs Subjectivity - Authority

Tagging and Bookmarking Your bookmarks at Delicious Tags… key words and phrases separated by commas allow users to find and classify content according to their individual criteria, which facilitates search for other users Folksonomy  the practice of collaborately annotating content through tags! Delicious, Keotag , Tagbulb

Your bookmarks at Delicious

Tags…

key words and phrases separated by commas

allow users to find and classify content according to their individual criteria, which facilitates search for other users

Folksonomy  the practice of collaborately annotating content through tags!

Delicious, Keotag , Tagbulb

Syndication RSS: Really Simple Syndication Retransmission, reduplication of content from one place to another…including your PC! Feeds: distribute web content: Partially: headlines, summaries Fully: a whole article, podcast How to subscribe to syndication With an aggregator : Bloglines Without an aggregator

RSS: Really Simple Syndication

Retransmission, reduplication of content from one place to another…including your PC!

Feeds: distribute web content:

Partially: headlines, summaries

Fully: a whole article, podcast

How to subscribe to syndication

With an aggregator : Bloglines

Without an aggregator

Webquests Webquests are collaboration-, reflection- and autonomy-provoking methodology which consists of hunting for information with a critical eye. Webquest.org has defined this method as “an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web.” [1] . It consists of: introduction, a task, the webquesting process and procedure, an evaluation and a conclusion. [1] Webquest.org. http://webquest.org/index.php . Last accessed: April 24th, 2008

Webquests are collaboration-, reflection- and autonomy-provoking methodology which consists of hunting for information with a critical eye. Webquest.org has defined this method as “an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web.” [1] .

It consists of:

introduction,

a task,

the webquesting process and procedure,

an evaluation and a conclusion.

[1] Webquest.org. http://webquest.org/index.php . Last accessed: April 24th, 2008

Webquests

A Sample Webquest Introduction : Article on Obesity + Movie: Super Size Me Task : Awareness Campaign: information on eating disorders (symptoms, causes, consequences), Quizzes, TV ad Webquesting . Sites selected by students. Website assessment. Presentation of campaigns. Assessment rubric : peer-feedback, self-assessment, teacher feedback on grid. Closure : Poems on obesity. Final reflection.

Introduction : Article on Obesity + Movie: Super Size Me

Task : Awareness Campaign: information on eating disorders (symptoms, causes, consequences), Quizzes, TV ad

Webquesting . Sites selected by students. Website assessment.

Presentation of campaigns.

Assessment rubric : peer-feedback, self-assessment, teacher feedback on grid.

Closure : Poems on obesity. Final reflection.

How attentive have you been?

Should we trust machines after all? Owed to the Spelling Chequer Eye halve a spelling chequer It came with my pea sea It plainly marques four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike a quay and type a word And weight four it two say Weather eye am wrong oar write It shows me strait a weigh. As soon as a mist ache is maid It nose bee fore two long And eye can put the error rite Its really ever wrong. Eye have run this poem threw it I am shore your pleased two no Its letter perfect in it's weigh My chequer tolled me sew. (Sauce unknown)

Owed to the Spelling Chequer

Eye halve a spelling chequer

It came with my pea sea

It plainly marques four my revue

Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a quay and type a word

And weight four it two say

Weather eye am wrong oar write

It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid

It nose bee fore two long

And eye can put the error rite

Its really ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it

I am shore your pleased two no

Its letter perfect in it's weigh

My chequer tolled me sew.

(Sauce unknown)

Thank you! Questions? Experiences to share? Ideas for collaborative projects? [email_address]

Questions? Experiences to share? Ideas for collaborative projects?

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